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Putin has a more fun life than you!

PIKALYOVO (RUSSIA): Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly humiliated a top oligarch, accusing him and other factory owners in a crisis-hit town of greed and likening them to 'cockroaches'.

Mr Putin, playing on the anger of protesting workers in the town of Pikalyovo, forced Mr Oleg Deripaska, a top metals tycoon and once Russia's richest man, to sign a contract for supplies to help idle factories restart operations.

'You have made thousands of people hostage to your ambitions, your lack of professionalism - or maybe simply your trivial greed,' he told Mr Deripaska and two other businessmen who own cement and alumina factories in the town in a confrontation broadcast on television.

Putin also summoned Deripaska to his seat..slammed a pen at him and told him that he didn't see his signature on 'raw materials supplies' agreement. Deripasla apparently did so 'with his head hung low like a school boy'. There was also apparently a threat to seize property if back-pay isn't settled immediately - which they did ofcourse.

We are all witnesses of the great one, my friend, we are all witnesses!

When I was in St Petersburg earlier in the year I found out they actually sell pictures and portraits of Putin (Medvedev as well). So I got a few patriotic posters of Putin Gave one each to some of my friends and my little Brother so they can also bask in his glory.

Nulli Secundus
People always talk of dying for their country, and never of making the other bastard die for his

When I was in St Petersburg earlier in the year I found out they actually sell pictures and portraits of Putin (Medvedev as well). So I got a few patriotic posters of Putin Gave one each to some of my friends and my little Brother so they can also bask in his glory.

You are an honourable chap who fulfills the true meaning of sharing and caring. I envy you. To get something of this priceless material in your possession, and to share it with your loved ones, only a true gentleman would do that, I salute you Shiny Capstar!